Revolution and Counter-revolutionOpen University Press, 1990 - 90 síður Revolution remains a key concept in the social sciences. After the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, a debate still rages over its causes and meaning. At the same time as, in Eastern Europe, much of what the Russian Revolution was believed to have stood for is being rejected, the Chinese leadership has reaffirmed its right to maintain revolutionary political orthodoxy by force. In this book Professor Calvert aims to show how revolution must by its nature be disputed. When people observe revolutions, their interpretations of what they are seeing are conditioned by changing intellectual fashion and by wishful thinking and so too are the theories derived from them. This book re-examines the place of revolution in modern social theory and at the same time reasserts the need for systematic study in the social sciences. |
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... model of revolution is the functionalist model , today exemplified by the work of Chalmers Johnson ( 1964 , 1966 ) in the United States . Social systems have to perform certain functions in order to survive over time , among them that of ...
... model of revolution is the functionalist model , today exemplified by the work of Chalmers Johnson ( 1964 , 1966 ) in the United States . Social systems have to perform certain functions in order to survive over time , among them that of ...
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... Revolution of November 1917 instead was to give authority to a much more limited interpretation of Marx , the Marxist - Leninist model of revolution . This , though derived from the Marxist model and claiming in fact to be its only ...
... Revolution of November 1917 instead was to give authority to a much more limited interpretation of Marx , the Marxist - Leninist model of revolution . This , though derived from the Marxist model and claiming in fact to be its only ...
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... model of revolution as something that is historically acceptable provided it fulfils certain formal criteria for acceptability is one which is widely held today and one which , in the form of the Brezhnev Doctrine , even had its ...
... model of revolution as something that is historically acceptable provided it fulfils certain formal criteria for acceptability is one which is widely held today and one which , in the form of the Brezhnev Doctrine , even had its ...
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